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Buried WWII weapons in Texas
wipala
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I'm reading a book called Unsolved Texas Mysteries.
One of the chapters is about Camp Maxey outside of Paris Texas. After VE day they started equipng for outfitting a new armored division to be sent to the Pacific, but the bomb ended the plans. The camp was to be closed and instead of storing or selling off all the equipment they dug deep trenches where they moved all the vehicles into and the buried them. The small arms were packed in steel drums and had cosmoline poured over them and they were buried as well. The minitions were just buried without regard to packaging them safely. So lets go on a treasure hunt anybody got a metal detector?
One of the chapters is about Camp Maxey outside of Paris Texas. After VE day they started equipng for outfitting a new armored division to be sent to the Pacific, but the bomb ended the plans. The camp was to be closed and instead of storing or selling off all the equipment they dug deep trenches where they moved all the vehicles into and the buried them. The small arms were packed in steel drums and had cosmoline poured over them and they were buried as well. The minitions were just buried without regard to packaging them safely. So lets go on a treasure hunt anybody got a metal detector?
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Actually I've heard rumors of something like that happening here at the air base outside of town ... the version I heard was the treasure even included vehicles driven down into the trenches and covered up rather than moved.
I think the Air National Guard controlls the area now.
? otherwise, you'll find an excuse.
The Texas National Guard still uses the site to train.
Your hunt may be a wild goose chase...
"During the ordnance and explosives removal activities at the former Camp Maxey, extreme measures were taken to inform the public of the UXO removal operations in progress. A safety exclusion zone was established at 450 feet around both areas. The exclusion zone was controlled during this removal action by the use of road barriers and signs. Pat Mayse Lake Staff was notified on a daily basis whenever barriers would block roads or road accesses."
The camp is also used as a public hunting area. So have at it if you think you have a chance.
Too expensive to fly them back. But Texas???? Come on.
If I was a pee-on soldier told to burry a bunch of junk......when 0100 hours came around I'd have a few buddies with shovels to bring them back up.[:p]
I'm in.[:D]